* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Russia held a realistic position on the Iran nuclear issue
* Police found a large cache full of arms and ammunition in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, the local law-enforcement bodies said
* Russia calls on Israel and Palestine for the quickest ceasefire, the Russian Foreign Ministry's press office said
* President Vladimir Putin signed the federal laws on ratifying inter-governmental treaties with Chile and India on cooperation in space exploration, the Kremlin press office said
* Russia's railroad monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) will buy a blocking interest in the locomotive producer Transmashholding to control the enterprise's price policy, the RZD president said
* Russia's foreign ministry said the trial over the former Iraqi president was the internal affair of Iraq and warned against politicizing the process
